Visit Xue Ziyuan and Xue Gang again
Leaving Zhuji Street, we went to Xuezi Garden via Wang Xinzhuang. The main purpose of this trip is to find out what memories Xue Qishao, Zhao Lion, Fang-faced Qiangwa, Pointed Chin Shengwa and other Ciyuan people in "The Long Night" still have in people's minds today, and what influence they have in the vicinity.
After entering the village, there were not many people in a large village, young people were working hard outside to start a business, and the elderly and children at home were resting in the house because the weather was too hot. We didn't have to knock on the door to disturb us, so we had to walk around the road in the village. The beautiful small buildings and gates, under the cover of high trees, seem so calm. Only the sound of cicadas squeaking and rattling came and went.
Shez Garden I have been here a few times and am more familiar with it. I took everyone to Xue Zhengli's old mansion, only to see a clearing with tall and low bushes, and the house had long ceased to exist. Walking west, I saw that after the pole was broken, The old house where Ju Sheng (Yao Xueyu) had been hidden for many days still existed.
In order to find the insider as soon as possible and end the visit as soon as possible, he had to find his old friend Xue Benquan again. The 71-year-old Xue Benquan and the 78-year-old Xue Haisong accompanied us to the home of Xue Zhengli's grandson Songshan (the fourth son of the second son Shude), and Xue Songshan was very enthusiastic about holding tea and serving water. When asked about his grandfather, he said: "My grandfather Xue Zhengli originally lived in Dafagou in front of Pangu Mountain and died in Jiangjiazhuang. My father and brothers, two brothers, and an aunt. My mother, whose surname is Liu, is now 86 years old and is supported by our brothers in turn." He went on to say: "Because I was young, there were some things I couldn't say clearly, and I could ask my brother Matsudaira more about it, so I said Matsudaira's phone number.
The two old men said: "Xue Zhengli (Yunshan) has a poor family, no land and no property, and no security in life, but he has prestige, influence, and prestige in front of the public, and it is the people who recommend him to be the head of the pole." ”
Xue Zhengli's house in Ciyuan garden has become flat and covered with greenery.
After the pole broke, Ju Sheng (Yao Xueyu) hid in this room for several days.
Professor Liu Ping took a photo in the well-preserved East House of the West Building.
In verse 32 of The Long Night, there is a passage that says:
Seven Youngsters asked on the bed in the middle of the room, "Lion, are you back?" Did you do the work? ”
The lion said; "Done. The work was done very clean".
"Good, good. You really become, you really become! ”
It turned out that Xue Qishao, in order to avenge his personal revenge, instructed Zhao Lion to kill people. Zhao Lion went to the house of the enemy of the Seven Youngs and beat his enemy, the woman of the enemy, and the two children and the family of four to death on the bed in the middle of the house.
When Grandma Qishao knew, she whispered to her husband, saying:
"Alas, you hid from me beforehand, and in the new year you did a bloody thing, and you didn't say it yourself, don't you think about your children?"
"You know what, nosy!"
"Although you usually don't believe in retribution, but midges have shadows in the past, can they bury dead bodies in the snow?"
"You don't have to care. Without lotus leaves, I did not dare to wrap rice dumplings, and the sky fell down with my long man on top. ”
Seven Young Nuns said indignantly, "Well, if you don't listen to me, there will be a time when you will walk in Maicheng at night!"
What kind of person is this Xue Qishao, and what memories do they still have in people's minds today?
The old people said: Xue Qishao is a member of the Xue clan, the famous Court Zhangzi Shaowen, his wife Guo Shi, is a large landlord with hundreds of acres of land. His lands were on Ibaraki and nearby hanging estates. His only son was named Wen Liang, daughter-in-law He Shi. When Qishao died, no one in Zhuang Shang knew now. He only knew that his son Wen Liang lived in his family's hanging village, Changying Village, before liberation.
Later, I asked the elderly people in Changying Village to learn: At a struggle meeting in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, someone smashed an egg on Wen Liang's face and made a face full of flowers, and he fled all night without knowing where he went. A few years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, when he returned from other places and walked to the post in the south of the village, he met a person in the village, and when he asked about the situation in his home, the person who was asked did not think about telling the truth: "After you left, your wife's life was difficult, and she had to remarry into the Cao family, and her son Songqi followed his mother." Wen Liang turned his head and left, never to enter the village again. Until now no one knew his whereabouts. Wen Liang's son, Xue Songqi, belonged to the sheep (born in 1943), nicknamed Mu, and was single all his life. In 2013 (at the age of 71), Lao Mu died in Beijing while working outside the home.
The rectangular-faced Qiangwa and the pointed chin Shengwa were unknown to the People of Ciyuan at the moment.
As for the craftsman Zhao Shizi, who killed his uncle in order to avenge his mother's revenge and was instructed by Xue Qishao to kill a family of 4 people, the people present also said that they had not heard of it and had no impression.
From this, I remembered a person, that is, Zhang Jiancheng near the Miaodian. Brother Zhang Jiancheng and brothers were both born with large waists and round waists, and their bodies were strong and strong. His father often told them: "Women have no door to enter the prostitution door, and men have no door to enter the green forest." The green forest he said was not a good green forest man who fought the rich and the poor, but a whiker who killed people and robbed roads. Zhang Jiancheng's heart was fierce, and he once shot and killed the seventh brother's child because of his own children and the children of his cousin's seventh brother, and the cousin did not dare to say a word; once when he went to the credit shop street to rush to the wang camp, he drank half a jar of tea from a man who hoes the land, and there was some unhappiness in the words of the hoe people, so he shot the farmers who hoeed the land and went away.
Brother Zhang Jiancheng, for the sake of steel yang (silver dollar) and large smoke soil, was often employed by people, killing countless people at the junction of Tanghe, Fangcheng, and Biyang counties, and everyone was in danger. The local authorities sent teams to arrest him many times, but because he and the mayor of several nearby townships and bao were brothers and well-informed, and because of their sharp skills, they escaped over the wall several times, and many times the pursuit was fruitless.
In 1944, the joint defense of Tang, Fang, and Bi counties was implemented, and the superior issued a final order to arrest Zhang's father and son within a time limit. If it cannot be captured when it is due, the township security chief who exchanges posts with The Zhang father and son will all be corrected (shot) on the spot. Li Xijiu, then the township chief of Raoliang Township in Biyang County, Liang Wenqing, the leader of the Raoliang Joint Defense Team, and Shang Yuchuan, the chief of the Camp of The Sons, in order to carry out the orders of their superiors and protect themselves, set up a banquet at Shang Yuchuan's house in the name of a gathering of friends during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and invited Zhang's father and son and their brothers to their homes. After the meal, wipe the gun according to the pre-planned game. Like everyone else, the Zhang father and son put the 5 short guns they carried on the table, disassembled, oiled, and wiped. When the gun was loaded, suddenly, three gunshots rang out, all of which hit Zhang Jiancheng's head and chest, killing him on the spot. When his brother and his father reacted, there were several more gunshots, and both of them fell in a pool of blood. In the afternoon, an ox cart pulled three corpses rolled up in sorghum foil and transported them through Miaodian Street to the home of Zhang's father and son. Along the way, people clapped their hands and applauded.
I think that Zhang Jiancheng's father and son destroyed human nature and tried to kill people, while Zhao Lion was a bit "moralistic" and killed people at the behest of others. Although there are differences between the two, those demons who kill people without blinking will not have a good end after all.
Interview at Xue Songshan's home
Zhuo Zong (1st from right), Liu Zhenhua (2nd from right), Xue Songshan (3rd from right), Xue Benquan (5th from right) and the author (4th from right).
Shang Changde, the old branch secretary of the 80-year-old Camp, identified zhang Jiancheng's father and son as killed.
The weather was so hot that everyone present was sweating. Especially Mr. Zhuo, the sweat jacket he wore had not been dry for two days. We couldn't resist Ben Quan's warm invitation to go to his house to rest. Ben quan turned on the air conditioner, and then turned on the water pipe for everyone to clean. It's not nice to feel cool for a while. Everyone heard me say that Ben was versatile and could play and sing, so they unanimously asked him to sing a few words to relax. Ben was all embarrassed, picked up the three strings to pluck the buckle, and after the prelude of the ruler, he hummed "The Great Blessing" with a board and an eye: "Long life is boundless, and the rivers and lakes are long." Long life and riches, noble sons full of halls. In front of the church, the grass is auspicious. After just a few words of drumming, everyone clapped and laughed, and the tiredness of the body disappeared.
The old man Xue Benquan was playing and singing.
Leaving Xue ci garden, we went to Xuegang Village and met Xue Lingtang, an 88-year-old retired old cadre and my old friend. Xue Lingtang said: When I was a child, I kept hearing that bandits had repeatedly entrenched in our village and Ciyuan, and the people of Zhuangshang were not less disturbed. It is also said that the first time Xue's family tree was continued was presided over by Xue Zizheng, who was the county magistrate of Biyang County at the time. A few years ago, the family tree was continued, it was Xue Songyang and a few of us who operated, in order to record Xue Yunshan's (Xue Zhengli) family into the family tree, we had to run to the southeast mountain to understand the situation. At the same time, Xue Zhengli lived in other places for a long time, did not understand the character school in the Xue clan, and mistakenly named his grandchildren the "Guo" character school. In fact, Xue's ancestors already had the "Guo" character school. According to the family rules, it is absolutely forbidden for the younger generations to use the characters of the predecessors to deceive the ancestors. Therefore, in the subsequent Xue clan genealogy, many of Xue Zhengli's grandsons were changed from the Guozi school to the Songzi school.
Visited retired cadre Xue Lingtang
Leaving Xuegang the red sun was about to set, and we hurried back to Miaodian via the Dou (Dao) Temple. When they arrived at Xigang in Raoliang Town, the two professors and Zhuo Zong both said that they were going to visit Raoliang Town, and one of the reasons for this was that Yao Xueyu said in a letter to readers for the reprinting of "Long Night", "The place where he was captured may belong to Biyang County, and I did not know at the time, but I knew that it was not very far from "Yao Liang Town". Is the town of Yao Liang that Yao said is the town of Raoliang at the moment? Second, there are data showing that Raoliang is a famous town with a long history and a big town, and since it is necessary to go to see it when passing by. I said: Our area is commonly known as Rao Liang as "Yao Liang", and Rao Liang is 30 miles away from Guo Ji. Yao Xueyan lived in Ciyuan and Xuegang, which were close to Raoliang, and mistakenly wrote what the locals called "Yaoliang" as "Yao Liang", which was similar in pronunciation. Everyone agreed.
We first came to The West Lake. See the high islands in the heart of the lake, hotel-style buildings and pavilions that sparkle in the setting sun. The breeze blows the lake and ripples, and the weeping willows on the shore swing back and forth. A bridge leads from the avenue in front of the supermarket to the island, and tourists in pairs, some exercising on fitness equipment, some chatting and laughing. A good leisure and entertainment place, everyone can't help but take a group photo.
He and Two professors, Liu Ping and Liu Zhenhua, took photos at the West Lake in Raoliang Town
Leave the West Lake and go east through the gate of Raoliang Health Center. I pointed out the window and said that there was once a tomb of Lini buried a young, beautiful and martial hero, Yi Renee. In order to protect the lives and property of her father and fellow villagers in the village, Lieni single-handedly fought a bloody battle with the red bearded (bandits) who attacked the village. Redbeard fought her but humiliated her with the despicable means of stripping naked. The Lenalis battle group of demons was humiliated and killed. Successive generations of Rao Liangren, whenever they went to the grave to worship their ancestors during the New Year's Festival, they had to go to her tomb and light a few pieces of paper (dark coins) to show respect.
When the car passed through the entrance of the town government and was about to reach the intersection, I said that before the 1950s, there was a tall Huashan Pavilion here, honoring Grandma Huashan and Lieni, and the incense was very strong. The Spring Festival meeting on February 29 every year, this is the center of the conference, very lively. Moving forward, it is Rao Liang's so-called three-mile-long north-south old street, which is actually more than three miles. Along the newly built cement road of the street, a well-preserved old wall is presented, and the wall is lush with trees. At the exit of the wall, a cement gate stands, a flood control facility built to prevent the river from being poured back. A reconstructed (originally built in 1506) Ancestral Master Temple, located within the wall of the wall, is solemn and simple.
Seeing the old wall and the ancestral master's temple, I remembered my Friend Yin Jinxi (pen name Yin Zhi), a friend of Rao Liang's Tonggeng, who said in his book "Hometown in May" (published by The China Literature and Art Publishing House): According to historical records, Rao Liang was yangping county in the fourth year of Northern Wei Yanchang, changed Yangping County to Raoliang County in the seventh year of The Sui Kai Emperor, and changed it to Biyang County in the second year of Daye. Raoliang Ancient Town is placed on five doors and five roads, and the ring city is nine miles and thirteen steps. Eight major temples, such as Dongda Temple and Five Tiger Temple, and four small temples such as Huashan Pavilion and Inverted Seat Hall have been built in the town, and Raoliang Town is the place where The Buddha flourishes. After listening, everyone praised Rao Liangzhen as an ancient town with a long history and profound cultural heritage.
Rao Liang's old wall is still preserved
Yin Jinxi and his Hometown of May
The red sun has long since set, do not dare to stay for a long time, turn on the headlights and return to the miao shop.
to be continued
About the Author
Liu Wanying, born in 1942, retired cadre of Miaodian Town, Sheqi County, is a member of the Communist Party. He enjoys calligraphy painting, poetry creation and erhu performance, and is now a member of the Henan Calligraphers Association.